Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 41:29
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Isaiah41:29
29. Behold, they are all vanity , their works are nothing : their molten Images are wind , and confusion .
This is the conclusion of the whole dispute, and the just sentence which God passeth upon Idols after a fair trial; they are vain things, and are falsly called Gods.
See ver. 24.
Which he mentions, because their materials were most precious, and more cost and art was commonly bestowed upon them, for after they had been molten they used to be carved or polished and adorned: but under these he synecdochically comprehends all Images whatsoever.
Empty and unsatisfying things, which also like the wind, do quickly pass away and come to nothing.
Confused and deformed and useless things, like that rude heap in the beginning of Gods Creation, of which this very word is used, Gen. 1. 2.
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